Indian fighter pilots of the road

Ricksaw drivers are undoubtably the Indian fighter pilots of the road. Indeed they like to call themselves Indian helicopter pilots, but I prefer the jet fighter pilot. Why...
Ricksaws only go one way - forward. They weave and dogfight the traffic to get from A to B, and are super competitive to get ahead of the other driver. And if some weapon is required to clear the way, they have their horn (the volume of which is completely disproporationate to the size of the vehicle). Kings of the road!

DEFINTION: The underpant point

An important point in any journey - a place of no return - defined as... the point in ones journey where the number of pairs of fresh clean underwear equals the numbers of days left until home and the washing machine!

Indian Ginger

Ginger is the new black... at least in India.
There is a high proportion of (often middle aged) men with ginger highlights. Looks like some product you comb in. These range from good to bad to awful.

Indian railways cough

What must it be like to work on the railways. Everyone has a hacking cough after every trip. Don't know if it is the atmosphere or dust or something, but everyone has a cough and it is all the same (also Delhi cough too, pollution was bad)

Half day Queueing

Indian railways is daunting and amazing. Once you battle through the queues, touts and husslers to the get to the counter & correct place you find you have to fill out forms, ask for details at one counter before going to another.
Seems confusing and it is.
...........but once you know what to do, it is easy and it works.
Amazing

Indian running of companies

I thought that this was an interesting observation.
Whilst on a business trip I was in a discussion related to the outsourcing of functions overseas. Primarily this has been to India, but also S Africa and Philippines.
What was interesting was that originally the management of these outsourcing companies was imported expertise from (usually) N America. On this trip for the first time I noticed that all the management team was imported talent from India.
It was clear that Indian companies, having built up expertise in outsourcing are now moving to outsourcing or spread their expertise themselves, most likely displacing the previously sourcing N American expat managers.
... so what is left in India. Well India is apparently moving on from high volume, low margin work to lower volume high margin work, such as computer programming, accounting etc. The wheel has turning and you can see it turning.
India is growing in economic influence and will do well.

People are people

I have this belief that people are people. No matter what they do for a living, where they live or what their background is. We are all very similar and want the same things, mainly to be liked and loved by other people.
This seems to be consistently forgotten in the mainstream media, where what you own, what you earn, the car you drive and where you live defines who you are.
I hear people judging and making decisions about other people based off these criteria. We become (and seem to like to become) detacted from the fact that these people are human beings, just like ourselves, with the same wants and desires.
People we do not know just become objects in this world.

This upsets me. I mean we need to make decisions to move on through our lives (who gets hired, who does not), but everyone is a person and deserves the respect and acknowldgement of that.